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On DVD & Blu-ray:May 18th, 2004
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Original Language:English
Production Companies:ABC Circle Films
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The Day After Quotes
Fear of Nuclear Threats and Human Vulnerability
Viewpoint Panel Following ABC Broadcast (November 20,1983): [[Judaism|Jewish; [Ruhollah Khomeini|Khomeini]
Not being a nuclear specialists in any way, I’m scared. I’m scared because I know that what is imaginable can happen. I know that the impossible is possible. I’ve seen the film and while I was watching it, I had a strange feeling that I had seen it before, except once upon a time it happened to my people, and now it happens to all people. And suddenly I said to myself maybe the whole world strangely has turned ]. Everybody lives now facing the unknown. We are all, in a way, helpless. We are talking about nuclear arms, about the bomb with a capital B, a kind of divinity in itself. Unless those who know militarily what it means, we readers, writers, people... we don’t know what it all means. When I hear about a thousand bombs, megatons... I don’t have that kind of imagination. To me it’s an abstraction, but to me, what all this means is that the human species may come to an end, that millions of children may die simply because one person somewhere... And I am not so much afraid of the big powers. I’m afraid of the small nations. If not now, maybe 10 years from now or 20 or 50, a ] will get hold of nuclear weapons. He won’t hesitate. He will not have a discussion such as the one that we have here.
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Promoting Dialogue on Nuclear Awareness and Responsibility
Viewpoint Panel Following ABC Broadcast (November 20,1983):
We live in a nuclear world by stressing that this is a plus sum game that we’re working on. There is a commonality of interests between the Soviets and the US to avoid the use of these weapons. That’s what that film shows. I totally disagree with those who say it’s a disservice to the nation to show the film. Not at all. It’s stimulating discussion on exactly the issue we ought to be discussing. There’s a million times the Hiroshima destruction power out there. We must ensure it not be used. It’s equally in the interest of the Soviet Union not to use it.
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